“…To date, a handful of studies suggest that people anxious about or at risk of contracting the virus (Yoon et al., 2021 ), healthcare professionals (Blekas et al., 2020 ), child welfare workers (Miller et al., 2020 ), women (Antičević et al., 2021 ), and individuals with poorer coping strategies (Levaot et al., 2022 ) experience higher levels of peritraumatic distress, as measured with the PDI, during the pandemic. Moreover, among older adults (60–92 years old), higher levels of COVID‐19 health worries were correlated with higher levels of peritraumatic distress symptoms (Greenblatt‐Kimron et al., 2021 ). However, none of such studies crossed their finding with age across the lifespan leaving this question open.…”